At 12:50 AM -0400 6/19/1999, Van wrote:
>Paul DuBois wrote:
>>
>> At 9:25 PM -0700 6/18/1999, Chip wrote:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > how do i increase the number of child processes during
> startup like
>> >> >> > apache? sorry, i'm new to mysqld? thanks.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > -che
>> >> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> The answer to your question is in Apache docs.
>> >> >
>> >> >Why would the answer to a MySQL question be in the apache docs?
> mySQL
>> >> >children have nothing to do with apache.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> There are no mysqld children. mysqld is multi-threaded, but
>> >> it's a single process.
>> >
>> >That's great and all, but you still didn't answer the question.
>> >
>> >AND you're wrong. My mySQL runs as 4 processes.
>> >
>> >28682 /usr/bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql--pid-file=/var/lib/mys
>> >28696 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --skip
>> >28698 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --skip
>> >28699 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --skip
>> >
>> >So how do I turn 3 children into 4 children?
>>
>> Run a client program to make another connection.
>>
>> I'll bet you're running Linux. ps on Linux shows threads as
>> separate processes.
>>
>> mysqld is *one* process. What would be the point of it being multiple
>> processes?
>>
>Well, if this isn't an irritating point-finger thread:
>Yes, there are 4 (maybe 3) mysqld processes, if you're doing it right,
>but, the original question was with respect to Apache processes, which
>have nothing to do w/ MySQL once built into the the httpd.
That's the point of confusion. The question *wasn't* about Apache.
(Although that's how I read it at first, and so did Sasha, I think.)
The original question said "...*like* apache..."
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